Bulletin Archive

Rick Kool, président de l’association du personnel académique de l’Université Royal Roads – la plus récente association membre de l’ACPPU. À son assemblée de novembre dernier, le Conseil de l’ACPPU a approuvé la demande d’adhésion de l’association du personnel académique […]

I’d like to start by congratulating our colleagues at Acadia University for the impressive gains they made on many fronts following their recent three-week strike, including improved salaries, workload, research funding and precedent-setting pay equity provisions. I witnessed firsthand during […]

I was surprised to read Sandy Hershcovis’ views on teaching and research, “Teaching Must Not be Trumped by Research” (Bulletin, September 2007), and then read Graeme Decarie’s reaction “Teaching? What Teaching?” in the November 2007 issue. Do they really believe […]

Queen’s University is home to one of Canada’s largest educational funds, with an endowment recently valued at $460 million. [Supplied Photo] Ironically, both the wealth and the debt of Canadian universities have reached record levels. Latest figures from the Canadian […]

Rick Kool, president of Royal Roads University Faculty Association, CAUT’s newest member association. Royal Roads University Faculty Association is the newest member of CAUT, following acceptance of its application at the November CAUT Council meeting. The Victoria, British Columbia-based faculty […]

Universities have become contractors to the federal grant agencies, and academics thus are de facto federal employees, or prostitutes in some characterizations, says John Mueller. [Supplied Photo] I would like to commend the Harry Crowe Foundation’s recent conference “Protecting the […]

J’aimerais pour commencer féliciter nos collègues de l’Université Acadia pour les impressionnants gains qu’ils ont faits sur de nombreux plans par suite de leur récente grève de trois semaines, notamment la majoration des salaires, la réévaluation de la charge de […]

L’ancien directeur général de l’ACPPU, Donald Savage (à droite), aux côtés des représentants de l’UNESCO Marco Antonio Dias (à gauche) et Dimitri Beridze (troisième à gauche) et de la directrice générale de l’association du personnel académique de l’Université Carleton, Pat […]

[Photo : Ryan Rexworthy / Université York] Un arbitre du travail de l’Ontario a tranché en faveur de David Noble (photo à gauche), procurant ainsi au professeur de sciences sociales une première victoire dans le différend sur la liberté académique […]

La majorité des Canadiens estiment que les droits de scolarité devraient être abaissés ou gelés, d’après un récent sondage Harris-Décima mené pour le compte de l’ACPPU et de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants (FCEE). Le sondage national sur […]

Day 3 of AUFA Strike — Hundreds of students, holding banners and shouting slogans, stage a solidarity rally with striking Acadia University Faculty Association members Oct. 17 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Professors, instructors and librarians went out on strike Oct. […]

Commission Plans Get Failing Grade, Decision-Making Now in Hands of Working Group In my October column I looked at the main recommendation by New Brunswick’s Commission on Post-Secondary Education to merge university campuses in Saint John, Edmundston and Shippagan with […]